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Kathleen Folbigg, right, is embraced by friend Tracy Chapman outside the New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal in Sydney, Australia, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023.

World News

Australian court tosses woman's 2-decade-old convictions in deaths of her 4 children

2:52am December 14, 2023

by The Associated Press

Kathleen Folbigg already was pardoned and released from prison in June based on new scientific evidence that her four children may have died from natural causes as she had insisted.

Former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Windham, N.H., on August 8.

National

A protective order is unlikely to curb Trump or affect his popularity

7:01pm August 08, 2023

by Jaclyn Diaz

A hearing is set for Friday on the parameters of a possible protective order dictating how former President Donald Trump and his legal team can talk about evidence in the Jan. 6 criminal case.

A report from the Human Rights Watch makes the case that federal law enforcers, police, and local prosecutors are concealing the origins of evidence and intelligence in scores of criminal cases, especially drug arrests.

National

Report Alleges Police Use Secret Evidence Collected By Feds To Make Arrests

10:07am February 01, 2018

by Eric Westervelt

A Human Rights Watch report raises questions about the legality of some investigative tactics federal, state and local police are allegedly using to mask sources of evidence in criminal cases.

The street where the body of Jeffrey Young was found in Dallas.

National

Why A Man Declared Innocent Can't Get Out Of Prison

4:36pm December 06, 2017

by Barbara Bradley Hagerty

Benjamine Spencer's case illustrates how difficult it can be for some prisoners in Texas to prove they did not commit a crime without new and unassailable evidence, such as DNA.

National

The Supreme Court Takes Up The Case Of The Missing Fish

12:18pm November 05, 2014

by Nina Totenberg

Prosecutors say that when undersized fish disappeared off of captain John Yates' boat, it constituted destruction of evidence. Business and civil liberties groups say the law only applies to papers.

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